Soooooo...how many of you men secretly want your spouse to cheat on you? Per the article: "I've seen men who try to trick their wives into cuckolding them, and this never, ever ends up well." (Article linked in comment section.)

There has always been a sense of "entitlement" in certain families. But as you noted below, karma can be a bitch. I remember when people would say, "Does Rose Kennedy own a black dress?" when they wished to convey "Duh! Ya think?" in a conversation.

So if I follow the article correctly, they argue that that the word "cuckolding" has become fetishized into a sexual fantasy of watching one's spouse engage in sexual activity with another person. Often times there is an element of BDSM involved in the fantasy.

The authors claim to have interviewed "thousands of Americans" and found that 58% of men and about one third of women report having had this fantasy. No other information was provided.

I have my doubts about this...It all sounds a little to much like pop-culture "science".

In any case I think it's important to remember that people have all kinds of sexual fantasies that they never act on. (Nor would they want to.)

Yes, for the gay portion of their conclusions. They cite numerous other studies used, I believe, to compare the heterosexual and homosexual use of cuckolding or cuckolding fantasies...though tbh I just skimmed it, as it isn't of that much interest to me.

As regards whether the study is "scientific" or not, I don't see too many that I would consider so. And the methodology isn't much different than most other studies. They took care to eliminate about half the respondents who did not meet their criteria. That it was an online survey is really so different than a phone or mail survey...how? The number really isn't out of the ballpark for most of the surveys I have recently looked at, either, which seem to fall between 500 and 1,000...which is but one reason I am disinclined to consider most studies as "scientific".

I've known couples that have brought in a third for a one-off thing just to live out a fantasy that they both agreed to try, but whats described here sounds too weird to understand. I sure wouldn't be interested especially anything to do with cheating.